Demonstration of escaping characters to match code page layout of currently selected font.

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fpdf_test.go b/fpdf_test.go
index be55031..303fdc7 100644
--- a/fpdf_test.go
+++ b/fpdf_test.go
@@ -1129,3 +1129,32 @@ func ExampleFpdf_tutorial21() {
 	// Output:
 	// Successfully generated pdf/tutorial21.pdf
 }
+
+// This example demonstrates the use of characters in the high range of the
+// Windows-1252 code page (gofdpf default).
+func ExampleFpdf_tutorial22() {
+	pdf := gofpdf.New("P", "mm", "A4", cnFontDir) // A4 210.0 x 297.0
+	fontSize := 16.0
+	pdf.SetFont("Helvetica", "", fontSize)
+	ht := pdf.PointConvert(fontSize)
+	write := func(str string) {
+		pdf.CellFormat(190, ht, str, "", 1, "C", false, 0, "")
+		pdf.Ln(ht)
+	}
+	pdf.AddPage()
+	htmlStr := `Until gofpdf supports UTF-8 encoded source text, source text needs ` +
+		`to be specified with all special characters escaped to match the code page ` +
+		`layout of the currently selected font. By default, gofdpf uses code page 1252.` +
+		` See <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1252">Wikipedia</a> for ` +
+		`a table of this layout.`
+	html := pdf.HTMLBasicNew()
+	html.Write(ht, htmlStr)
+	pdf.Ln(2 * ht)
+	write("Voix ambigu\xeb d'un c\x9cur qui au z\xe9phyr pr\xe9f\xe8re les jattes de kiwi.")
+	write("Falsches \xdcben von Xylophonmusik qu\xe4lt jeden gr\xf6\xdferen Zwerg.")
+	write("Heiz\xf6lr\xfccksto\xdfabd\xe4mpfung")
+	write("For\xe5rsj\xe6vnd\xf8gn / Efter\xe5rsj\xe6vnd\xf8gn")
+	pdf.OutputAndClose(docWriter(pdf, 22))
+	// Output:
+	// Successfully generated pdf/tutorial22.pdf
+}